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...interview with the Washington Post last week, Reagan said he had received a response to the invitation that Vice President George Bush hand- delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev at the funeral of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. Administration officials said the President had received a "positive" reply, but admitted it was vague and noncommittal. "There are no negotiations for a summit," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, and added, "There has been no discussion about arrangements for a summit, no meeting set, no time set, nothing along those lines...
...Alan Paton, the outspoken liberal critic of apartheid recently remarked, "I will never give any support to any campaign that will put men out of jobs not even if they promised me that it would bring Chernenko down Or Reagan Or P.W. Botha...
...away. A number of faculty members, including a sizeable portion of the English Department, have also been the object of suspicion. Suspicions also reflect the biases of the student body, since Ronald Reagan is accused at least twice as often as Walter Mondale, and three times more than Konstantin Chernenko, especially...
...saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...
...speed with which Gorbachev was ratified as the General Secretary of the Communist Party--less than 24 hours after Chernenko's death--puzzled Western diplomats. Some insight into Gorbachev's confirmation emerged last week with the release of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's nominating speech to the Central Committee. The address seemed to Western analysts to have been aimed at blunting potential criticism that Gorbachev, 54, was too outspoken. Gromyko lauded the new leader for expressing himself with a "Leninist directness." Gromyko also stressed that Gorbachev had in effect been "brilliantly" running the country during Chernenko's illness...